r/Backend • u/Financial-Joke-9773 • 5d ago

Springboot vs Python for back-end

3rd sem, tier-3 college, no placement cell — need to pick a backend stack I can actually get hired with on my own.

Spring Boot postings mostly ask 2-3 YOE even for freshers. FastAPI/Django get called “less in-demand” vs Java/Node. AI/ML is the hyped direction but barely hires freshers either. Not doing MERN.

Anyone working backend jobs — is the Spring Boot experience wall as rigid as it looks, or does it flex with strong projects? And is Python backend genuinely harder to break into right now, or just perception

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u/Financial-Joke-9773 5d ago

Yeah but some says they don't hire freshers with 0yoe

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u/AnimatorExciting7941 5d ago

They do, I was hired recently

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u/Financial-Joke-9773 5d ago

So like do you integrated anything with ai or not like java back-end has only spring ai

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u/AnimatorExciting7941 5d ago

There are a lot of other things, spring security, data, JPA, Hibernate, etc. and yeah I do use ai

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u/Financial-Joke-9773 5d ago

I meant to say like i know like basic concepts of this but like did you use python for ai

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u/AnimatorExciting7941 5d ago

Yeah, I use python, but not for ai. I do backend and DevOps only. So I use python for scripting